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All Topics (February 3 through April 30)
Monday, February 3
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Intermediate Usage of the SCC (Lecture)This tutorial will provide some more advanced techniques and common strategies used for interacting with the Shared Computing Cluster and its resources. The topics discussed during the tutorial include: Customizing your environment Parallel computing on the SCC Jobs monitoring and profiling: CPU and GPU utilization, memory usage Profiling programs for performance optimization General optimization strategies…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - GIS Using Python: xarray (Hands-on)Xarray is a Python library that has a goal "working with labelled multi-dimensional arrays simple, efficient, and fun!". This tool is often used in the fields like climate science, oceanography, and remote sensing. In these fields one will often work with raster type data that have dimensions representing coordinates (e.g. latitude and longitude) and time…
Tuesday, February 4
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Machine Learning with Python scikit-learn, Part One (Hands-on)This is the first part of a two-part tutorial series. Be sure to also register for Part Two on Thursday, Feb 6 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm to continue building your knowledge. What to Expect: This session introduces Scikit-Learn, a powerful Python library for machine learning. Scikit-Learn supports supervised and unsupervised learning and offers tools for:…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Using GitHub Copilot in RStudio for Code Development (Hands-on)Discover how GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant, can revolutionize your coding workflow in RStudio. This tutorial session will guide participants through integrating and effectively using GitHub Copilot within the RStudio environment. Attendees will learn how to: Set up and enable GitHub Copilot in RStudio. Leverage its capabilities to streamline code development in R. Generate,…
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The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the WorldIn collaboration with the BU Global Development Policy Center, Center on Latin American Studies, Political Science, Initiative on Cities, Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute, Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future, Journalism (COM), and Economics, the Center for the Humanities will host Atossa Abrahamian, independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World,…
Wednesday, February 5
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Weekly AIR Seminar 02/05Chau's Talk: Title: Enhancing Feature Diversity Boosts Channel-Adaptive Vision Transformers Abstract: Multi-Channel Imaging (MCI) contains an array of challenges for encoding useful feature representations not present in traditional images. For example, images from two different satellites may both contain RGB channels, but the remaining channels can be different for each imaging source. Thus, MCI models…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part One (Hands-on)This is an introduction to the essential features of Python. This first part of the tutorial includes an introduction to basic types, if-statements, functions, lists, dictionaries, loops, and modules. The tutorial includes the use of a popular Python development environment and covers setting up Python on your own computer in addition to using Python on…
Thursday, February 6
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Creating Pretty Documents using R Markdown and Quarto (Hands-on)R Markdown is a powerful tool that helps produce elegantly formatted documents. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the rmarkdown, ggplot2, and kable packages, as well as their extensions to develop reports that include code, graphics, and tables. We will cover various options to customize code chunks, figures, and tables and go…
Friday, February 7
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The 2025 ILJ Symposium: The Normalized Tragedy: Addressing Legal Responses to Gun Violence in the United States and Abroad.For decades, the United States has faced an epidemic of gun violence, with guns altering the way American citizens go about their lives. However, gun violence in the United States has reached a point where nowhere is safe, and places that should be safe spaces such as local schools, places of worship, and university campuses…
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ENERGIZE Graduate Student Training Program Information SessionThe ENERGIZE program is recruiting its first cohort of graduate trainees.
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part Two (Hands-on)This tutorial is a continuation of "Introduction to Python, Part One" and introduces more features of the language, common libraries such as numpy and matplotlib, and the basics of debugging Python programs. Please make sure you sign up for part one as well.
Monday, February 10
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Julia (Hands-on)Julia is a high-performance programming language, but with many features more common to lower performance interpreted languages. Many of its features are well suited for numerical analysis and computational science, with functions and syntax that are built around supporting this. This tutorial presents an introduction via solving hands-on example problems; this motivates the syntax/tools in…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - GIS Using R: arcgis (Hands-on)The R arcgis library is part of ESRI's R-ArcGIS Bridge toolbox that allows one to interact with ArcGIS Online services within an R environment. This enables one to load data hosted on ArcGIS Online into an sf object within your R environment. Create GIS data using sf in your R environment and then publishing that…
Tuesday, February 11
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to GRASS GIS Processing Engine (Hands-on)This tutorial will introduce participants into the fundamentals of processing geospatial data using the GRASS GIS engine. We will cover the basics of GRASS GIS, ingesting data into a new project, and visualizing spatial data in a Jupyter Notebook. We will work through a focused example—a viewshed analysis case study—where we will compute and evaluate…
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IS&T RCS Tutorial - Deep Learning with PyTorch, Part One (Hands-on)This is the first part of a two-part tutorial on PyTorch. Be sure to also register for Part Two on Thursday, February 13, from 1 PM to 3 PM to continue building your knowledge. What to Expect: This session introduces PyTorch, a popular and versatile Python library for deep learning, optimized for acceleration processing using…
Wednesday, February 12
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Meet the Donaghue FoundationAre you looking for funding to support health services research? The Donaghue Foundation supports research that organizations can use to improve the value of their health care services. Its focus is reducing (a) high and rising healthcare costs, (b) unwarranted variation and lack of transparency in quality, prices, and outcomes, and (c) racial and ethnic…
